# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Paulina Banas - Nineteenth-Century Travel, Collaboration, and Orientalist Publishing on Egypt
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This talk discusses how nineteenth-century European travel and publishing industries shaped visual and cultural perceptions of Egypt and the Middle East.

Drawing on illustrations featuring Cairo and the Nile Valley, and the politics of collaboration among the various agents of this publishing world, such as the Dutch draughtsman Willem De Famars Testas and his employer, the French author Émile Prisse d’Avennes, Paulina Banas discusses the transforming image, market, and book industry on modern Egypt from the late 1830s to the late 1870s.

This approach, which traces the intersections of arts, commerce, and imperial power, reveals how the publishing world contributed to what we now recognize as the “citationary” character of Orientalist visual culture.

Paulina Banas is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research investigates the visual and material cultures of the cross-cultural encounters between Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa from the seventeenth century to the present. Originally from Poland, she holds a PhD from Binghamton University and an MA from Sorbonne University. Her recent book, Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century (https://aucpress.com/9781617976674), was published by the American University in Cairo Press in 2025.

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The lecture starts at 6 pm. We work on a first-come, first-served basis as the number of seats is limited. We open our doors at 5:30 and close them at 6:15 or earlier when the lecture room reaches its full capacity.

The lecture will be livestreamed on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84790693397
Meeting ID: 847 9069 3397
Passcode: 073126
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cairo/paulina-banas-nineteenth-century-travel-collaboration-and-orientalist-publishing-on-egypt/200030197103958
- **Event Categories**: art, meetups, fine-arts, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 145

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cairo
- **state**: QH
- **country**: Egypt
- **location**: NVIC - Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo
- **lat**: 30.056690055425
- **long**: 31.222203892899
- **full address**: NVIC - Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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- **Q**: When and where is Paulina Banas - Nineteenth-Century Travel, Collaboration, and Orientalist Publishing on Egypt being held?
  - **A:** Paulina Banas - Nineteenth-Century Travel, Collaboration, and Orientalist Publishing on Egypt takes place on Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm at NVIC - Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
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